I think that was great. Well, I think the main message I'm trying
to get across is that you're way more capable than you think you are. The human
spirit seems to be full of unlimited potential. At least in my own experience
with myself as I continue living I find that the more I do the more I realize
that I'm capable of way more than I ever thought I was. You have potential and I
know it's scary to live up to it but you can do it.
You'll always surprise yourself and the world is a big mysterious place and it's
better to experience it firsthand than to experience it through what other people are telling you. Big love! Dylan Magaster, over and out! First off, before we go any further. Dylan why are you wearing one glove? Because I
decided it was a good idea to puncture my hand. Actually I didn't decide it. I
wasn't even thinking and that's the problem.
Long story really short I found a dead Sea Turtle and I cleaned the skull and I
was like, "I want to mount that on my van" because it looks badass. I pre-drilled
the skull so that I wouldn't crack the skull, but I didn't pre-drill the hole
into the van so I was trying to screw it straight in so it was slipping so I was like,
"well, let me just pre-drill it." That red case that dropped. And then, this
happened. Oh f*&%, I just punctured my hand. That like definitely just went into that
muscle. Let's grab the First Aid kit. We've dressed the wound and now we can continue on as the Blue Handed
Bandit. Rael, try to keep me from doing
things that are mindlessly dumb. So that explains the glove. Hand's all
better now. I've healed from that. Back to the main event, Gladys 2.0. If you're an
absolute savage you may remember what my van looked like when I first bought it. And if not! I bought a van. That's the van that I bought. Let me show you the features. Two captain
chairs . Neither which swivel. A stereo that does
not work. 65,000 miles. Fully functional wheelchair lift with two tie downs that I
don't need so that's gonna be sold. TV and a VCR of unknown functionability. A
high-top roof for optimal standing conditions. And a helluva personality.
I bought Gladys on June 6th of 2016. In August of 2016 I built out Gladys and
created Gladys 1.0 baybay. I've been making casual upgrades as I've
been going like a light bar and Abel Zyl made me a little bookshelf in there,
which is dope, but recently I embarked on a five-week adventure through Baja
California, Mexico, Baja Sur, all the way down to Cabo with Rael and I had to
make some decent upgrades to Gladys to make sure that she was up for the
challenge. Those being...I immediately bought a dirt bike because I mean isn't
that what you would do? So then I had to figure out how to carry the dirt bike
and so then I had to mount a, what are those called? Hitch. I had to put a hitch
on Gladys. I went under the van and I started to install the hitch because it
seemed pretty straightforward, but as is it everything, I ran into hurdles. This piece
is the piece I'm trying to remove. I got the two bolts out from right there. That's what these bolts are, but this one I can't get out. It
keeps spinning. It's just spinning in place. So I had to take the van to a shop
here in Yucca Valley and they punched out those bolts. I went to install the
hitch and I was having some issues again because single person under there and it
was also like not fitting. I took it back to him and they got it installed, the
hitch, for me. I had to move the spare tire because of the dirt bike so I had to
put that on top of my van and then I put the trasharoo up
there and that was all cool and fine and was hanging out all snazzy like. Every
once in awhile it was falling in front of my rear backup camera, so that was a problem,
and then also people kept like yelling at me while I was driving like, "Hey, do
you know that bag is like hanging off your van?", and I was like, "yeah"...and so
then I decided to just drill it and mount it straight into the door so
that's straight-up drilled into my door. I bought a motorcycle rack so that I could
carry the dirt bike down to Mexico. I stopped by the swap meet here in Joshua
Tree actually in Yucca Valley. If you're ever in the area you gotta visit swap
meet. That's where I got that black box and that's also where I got that first aid
box, which is a beauty. So that black box kind of acts as my
outdoor garage now mounted on the back. A lot of people are afraid of like
drilling into their vehicle and cutting holes in their vehicle and I've never
really understood that because my thought is as long as you seal it
properly, you just mount stuff to your vehicle and maybe I mean let me
know if you disagree with that but that's what I think. What else did I do?
Oh so, Gladys had a few cancer spots that I tried to take care of. I'm not a doctor
nor a mechanic nor a physician, but I did clean the wound and tried to get rid of
any rust and dead areas. Scrubbed it up all real good then I sealed it with tire, nope, sealed it with truck bed liner. I ended up doing that all the way around the
bottom of Gladys. There's one main spot down here near the passenger side fender
that was pretty significant that I ended up using gaff tape, screen from a
window screen, and then more gaff tape and then truck bed liner because it
works. I also added this which you can't see,
exterior light, which has been quite useful. Highly recommend exterior
lighting. I mounted some max tracks to the side of the van because well I mean
you are going to get stuck eventually and so I did get stuck and they came in
handy, but not as handy as I wish they would have because they didn't get me
out. I made a bed extension so that I'd no longer have to sleep diagonally. Also
since that last video I had lumpy cushions I fixed that a long time ago
added just three inch foam so they're not like extremely comfortable,
but they're I mean they're not bad. It's kind of like living in a van. And finally, I
recruited Rael to help me install the awning and that was kind of a pain in
the ass. Put it up but the roof of my van is like
concave. Five out of six bolts are mounted. The other one is just filled
with silicone so it doesn't leak, but it's totally on there. I mean it's been
on there for like two or three months and I haven't had any issues with it.
Other things that I have added in addition are a Dometic refrigerator. That
thing, okay, that thing is great. It's huge so I can hold like a gallon of whatever
type of drink you want and a week's worth of food. One of the great things
about that fridge is that it's got a monitor on it so if your battery bank is
low it won't cycle, which is super nice because like then it's not just gonna
destroy your battery bank. There's been a lot of other small improvements like
mounting the yoga mat onto the wall with gear ties. I also added this little
vision from Miguel and Gladys in La Paz. Stayed at an Airbnb in La Paz and they gave me that
as a gift and it was like, "whoo!" Added a shelf into the window which was helpful.
Basically made a whole bunch of small upgrades. This is Gladys 2.0.
Here are the specs. She's got 200 watts of solar going into
a 200 amp hour battery bank, which powers a DC compressor fridge as well as a
thousand watt inverter as well as two lights and a fan. That also charges
camera gear during the day and by night just runs the fan. She's got over a
hundred thousand miles. Gladys has one hundred and two thousand three hundred miles.
She gets about 15 miles to the gallon give or take depending on the roads and
the fuel quality and how I'm driving. Gallon of propane, 12 gallons of fresh
water, three gallons in a solar shower which is totally arguable if it works or
not. Common question I get is, "Dylan, how did you make that
dope ass floor?" Well this is how I made it. Basically, first you got to get
a giant map. So I cut a piece of plywood about yay big.
I glued the map to the plywood with spray glue and then I was gonna cover it
with polyurethane like 80 times until it developed this like thick resin, but the
plywood was warping and whenever I straightened it out it created bubbles I was
like, "No!", but I'm aren't committed to this idea so how am I gonna do it? So I found
polycarbonate on Craigslist like plexiglass but I used Lexan and so I
got a piece of Lexan, cut it to size screwed it down, and that's how you
create that floor. Update. So Thursday March 15th I will be live-streaming at 3 p.m.
Pacific time. Come join the channel for that and you can ask me whatever you
want during that time and I will answer it because you'll have my full undivided
attention for approximately an hour. Today I also launched an online store so
you can go buy merch now for FLORB Floating Orb Productions, which is the
company that I'm starting and last of all thank you to the Patrons that
support the channel that think that my content is good enough to actually
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So, to recap, live stream March 15th 3 p.m. Pacific time.
Go buy some merch and if you want to join the team, join on Patreon. So stay tuned because this is gonna be dope year! Believe me, it
will be. Have a great day.
